Ellis Mission - Dominican Republic

          🎄 🎄 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 ⭐ 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 🎄 🎄 Silent Night, Holy Night We want to wish you all  A  Merry Christ mas  And a Happy New Year!!  ⭐ This is our office  where we spend most of our time ⭐ 🎄🎄 ⭐ 🎄🎄 A tradition we have had since we were first married is to put up this picture of the Savior in our tree as one of the ornaments.   '  Jesus is the ST ⭐R  The YSA's at the institute asked if they could see what our tree at home (Utah) looked like, so we showed them (below). They know we don't have a tree this year, so when they saw the picture of the Savior on our Utah tree, to make us feel "at home" they put the same picture on the Institute tree  (above) . Yes! They really are that cool.  Our Christmas tree at home last year 🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰 Our last day in the Temple Class   We gave each student a book about the temple  to encourage them to continute to learn ...

Eating is not the only thing we do here in the DR but it is a big part of what we do here!😀 The Sunday before Hna Ellis made Thanksgiving dinner for 22 YSA's who organize many of the YSA activities at the Institute Eating many foods they have never experienced before Natasha & Samual (brother/sister) They asked for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, so this was a special treat for all of their work with the YSA's activities.  Our Emotionl Resilience Class Meets on Thursdays, so on  Thanksgiving day we taught  And then we enjoyed Thanksgiving Dinner, again!  This class has grown even since this picture was taken. Brayan, giving the peace sign on the left, is a natural born leader. He continues to invite friends from the University to come to our Emotional Resilience class. We are up to thirteen people! The students are all Christian and they enjoy that Jesus Christ's gospel principles are included in emotional reselience. As a way to say "thank you" to us for ...